Please read the attachment below. When you turn in your essay, write your prompt at the top of Page 1. Thanks. ~ZM

Please read the new instructions.
This assignment is due on Thursday, March 31, 2022, 8pm (Week 12).

We are emphasizing the importance of reading, rereading, close reading, annotating, and prewriting before going to draft.

If you already turned in an essay, please write a new one. Spend at least one hour prewriting. If you're prewriting by Google Doc, include it with your final draft. If you're prewriting by hand, turn your work in to the basket at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 2/8. 

Attached you'll find our class-generated Study Guide.

Please write an essay answering the following prompt:

How does the setting in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story reflect Young Goodman Brown's character? Address tone and theme. Please create a Google Doc and attach it to this assignment: Times New Roman, 12-point font, Double-spaced.

Create a beautiful CER paragraph analyzing the tone of an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein." 

Apply the DIDLS acronym and work through your excerpt according to the attached examples. 

Strive for originality of thought and clarity of expression.

Create a Google Doc and attach it to this assignment. 

Thanks. ~ZM

Write an essay for the following prompt:

Analyze the psychological portrait of Emily from William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily." Address tone and theme and adhere to the rubric.

We are emphasizing the importance of reading, rereading, close reading, annotating, and prewriting before going to draft.

If you already turned in an essay, please write a new one. Spend at least one hour prewriting. If you're prewriting by Google Doc, include it with your final draft. If you're prewriting by hand, turn your work in to the basket at the beginning of class on Thursday, 2/3. 

If you were absent on Tuesday, 2/1, please check in with a colleague about what you missed.

Please write an essay that addresses the following prompt for Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill": 

Miss Brill never speaks in this short story. What effect does this have on how you perceive her character? She seems to live her life in her head, and the reader hears her thoughts as carefully revealed through Mansfield’s use of limited third-person point of view. Why do you think Miss Brill doesn’t speak to anyone in the park? Explain in terms of Miss Brill’s longing for connection with others.

Please create a Google Doc, attach it to this assignment, and answer the attached prompt. Please use your notes. Refer to the Scoring Rubric for Question 2: Prose Fiction Argument. Thanks. ~ZM

1. Compare your notes to the attached Annotated "Birthday Party."
2. Fill in your notes as needed.
3. Create an outline for the following prompt: Write an essay in which you show how Katharine Brush uses literary devices to achieve her purpose in her short story "Birthday Party."
4. Refer to the attached Scoring Rubric for Question 2: Prose Fiction Argument.

P.S. Please read and annotate "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield for Wednesday, January 19. Thanks. ~ZM

Happy New Year, my beautiful scholars!

This is a valuable close-reading exercise to hone your observation skills.

You are about to read a short story titled “Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush. The
story has been transcribed verbatim on Google Slides. On several sheets of paper, handwrite everything you notice and everything you wonder, slide by slide.

Do not proceed to the next slide until you have exhausted your notes with the current slide.

Take your time. Be as thorough as you can.

Once you have finished jotting down what you notice and what you wonder for the entire short story, feel free to then reach out to a colleague who has also finished in order to share your notice/wonder notes slide by slide. If your colleague shares something that you don’t have, fill in your notes.

If you have any questions, please email me. I am always here for you.  

You have your mission, my beautiful scholars. Go forth and conquer.


*Please take pictures of your handwritten notes and attach them to this assignment by Thursday, January 13, 8pm. 

Carefully read Langston Hughes’ poem “Island.” Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how the poet uses multiple literary devices (techniques and elements) that contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. 

Please handwrite your essay. (You may type it if you want.) If you write at least two drafts -- editing (marking up) your first draft, and your final draft is stronger than your original -- then you may earn/improve your Revision grade.


Typed format: Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced

This essay is designed to improve your work from "Caged Bird." Please refer to Essay Rubric, Question 1: Poetry Analysis as well as the "Caged Bird" Example of a student who earned an A.

2009. A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.

This essay for William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is due on Monday, December 6; however I will accept it, at the latest, by Tuesday, 12/7, 3:40pm.

Please handwrite your essay (You may type it if you want.) If you write at least two drafts -- editing (marking up) your first draft, and your final draft is stronger than your original -- then you may earn/improve your Revision grade.

Please refer to Essay Rubric, Question 3: Literary Argument.



Typed format: Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced

Write an analytical essay for Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird." Your thesis needs to offer an interpretation of the poem. Consider how literary terms and devices contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. Create a Google Doc and attach it to this assignment.

Create a Google Doc and attach it to this assignment.

Typed format: Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced

You only need to turn in #3 from the Instructions. Try to write an essay for your interpretive writing. Thank you, my beautiful scholars. You have your mission. Go forth and conquer!

Please create a Google Document and indicate "Yes, I am still interested in taking AP English Literature and Composition 2021 - 2022," or "No thank you, I am not interested." Thanks. ~ZM